Warspite

DS216j 2-bay basic model

2x 2TB SATA in SHR configuration, ext4 filesystem

At family's place

Iowa

DS916+ 4-bay advanced model with btrfs support

3x 6TB SATA in SHR configuration, btrfs filesystem, 1x SSD read-cache

At home

If I upgraded, I'd probably go for the DS1621+ so that I can add a 10gbps NIC. Alternatively, the DS1817 has onboard 10gig NICs but has no btrfs support or M.2 slots.

Tools

If you're SSH'd to the box, you can install/activate extra tools that you'd be used to having as a sysadmin.

sudo synogear install

Despite being called with "install", all this does is drop you into a subshell with access to the tools, kinda like activating a python virtualenv. You'll need to run it any time you want to use them (or you can mess with your $PATH I guess).

root@iowa:~# echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/syno/sbin:/usr/syno/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin

root@iowa:~# synogear install
root@iowa:~# echo $PATH
/var/packages/DiagnosisTool/target/tool/:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/syno/sbin:/usr/syno/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin

rsync over ssh

Maybe I broke it, but rsync doesn't work as expected without some fiddling. I thought it might be due to cruft in my ~/.bashrc but I don't think it's that.

This works though:

rsync -avx --rsync-path=/usr/bin/rsync furinkan@iowa:/volume1/path/to/files/ /somewhere/local/or/whatever/

The error message suggests it can't find or can't execute the rsync binary at the far end, but I can't tell why.

furinkan@suomi:~$ ssh furinkan@iowa 'echo $PATH'
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

furinkan@suomi:~$ ssh furinkan@iowa 'which rsync'
/usr/bin/rsync